IRISH AFFAIRS
Acstralian and n.z. oabe* association IRELAND'S DECISION. L\ KEG All D TO DIVORCE. DUBLIN, February 11. The Dail Eiioann debated the question of divorce in the Free State and on the motion of President Cosgravi to instruct the Standing Orders Committee to sot up rules which would debar divorce a, vinculo matromonu. President Co.skrave said the majority of Southern Irishmen hold that marriage is a sacrament, and that it could not be dissolved. Any attempt to legalise divorce, he said, would strike at the root of Irish social life.
Professor Thrift urged that the motion was unfair to the Protestant minority. lie said it would be a. further barrier against a reunion with Northern Ireland. The motion was carried. There arc now no means hv which persons in Southern Ireland can promote bills in the House of Lords for Divorce.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1925, Page 3
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